And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.